Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Fuel Costs: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission

Photo of Garret AhearnGarret Ahearn (Fine Gael)
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I get that. I get the display part of it. In Mr. Murphy's contribution as well as in Mr. Godfrey's, they spoke about the penalties that are there for companies that do not act accordingly. One of those penalties is up to a ten-year prison sentence. The ten-year prison sentence is not going to someone who did not display a price rise and that is clearly for a different offence. For an offence of someone totally overpricing fuel and diesel, if the CCPC is not regulating it, or if it is not protecting customers in terms of fair price, who is?